Metagenome Skimming of Insect Specimen Pools: Potential for Comparative Genomics
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Metagenome Skimming of Insect Specimen Pools: Potential for Comparative Genomics
Metagenomic analyses are challenging in metazoans, but high-copy number and repeat regions can be assembled from low-coverage sequencing by "genome skimming," which is applied here as a new way of characterizing metagenomes obtained in an ecological or taxonomic context. Illumina shotgun sequencing on two pools of Coleoptera (beetles) of approximately 200 species each were assembled into tens o...
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عنوان ژورنال: Genome Biology and Evolution
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1759-6653
DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evv086